“The necessity for fiction was probably born of the problem of taboo on certain revelations. It was not only a need of the imagination but an answer to the limitations placed on portrayal of others.”
The Novel of the Future (1969)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Anaïs Nin278
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes
“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Vangelis (1943) Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music
Music without lyrics travels more easily and may be biologically conceived and received".
1979
Laura Riding Jackson (1901–1991) poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
"Daisy and Venison" from Progress of Stories (Deya, Majorca: Seizin Press; London, Constable, 1935)
Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985) American speculative fiction writer
As quoted in an interview with David Duncan http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/misc/duncan.html <br class="br">Context: Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called "other", which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
G. K. Chesterton book The Club of Queer Trades
The Club of Queer Trades (1905) Ch. 4 "Speculation of the House Agent"
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
“Morality and literature,” pp. 160-161
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)
Wheeler L. Baker (1938) President of Hargrave Military Academy
The Cadence (2009), yearbook of Hargrave Military Academy, p. F
“Imagination… its limits are only those of the mind itself.”
Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter